A report published today offers draft guidance on what steps Members should take to correct inaccurate contributions made in Parliament.

In the report by the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, a new mechanism is proposed for formally publishing corrections within the Official Report. 

Committee convener Gil Paterson MSP said: “It remains the over-riding responsibility of Members and Ministers to ensure the accuracy of their statements in Parliament.  This mechanism will enhance transparency when corrections are required.”

The Health and Sport Committee has issued a call for written evidence on the Certification of Death (Scotland) Bill.

The bill aims to introduce a new system for scrutiny of medical certificates pertaining to cause of death. It aims to do this by introducing several new measures, such as the creation of medical reviewer and senior medical reviewer posts to review death certificates for accuracy.

If successful, the bill will also ensure that it will be an offence to dispose of a body, or body parts, without authorisation; and, where a person has died out-with Scotland, medical reviewers will be given more control on how that body is handled upon return to this country.

For more information read the Call for Written Evidence